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In 1985, about 30 million people worldwide had diabetes. Today the estimate is over 143 million. The epidemic nature of this insidious silent killer is soaring while public awareness remains low; many people have diabetes and don't know it. Nearly 6% of all Americans have diabetes; it is the sixth leading cause of death by disease and the leading cause of end-stage renal disease and blindness in people over 20 in the U.S. as well as a major cause of nerve damage, amputations, heart disease, and stroke worldwide.
Diabetes Management provides comprehensive, up-to-date diabetes information that clinicians can use to diagnose patients and manage the disease. Chapters on hypertension, dyslipidemias, microalbuminuria, menopause, hyperglycemia, hypoglycemia and ketoacidosis discuss how to manage diabetic complications through more aggressive identification and treatment of risk factors.
Dr. M. Arthur Charles is a professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of California at Irvine; director of its Focused Research Program in Diabetes; and a senior consultant to the Diabetes Research Center & Atherosclerosis Prevention Center in Tustin, California. A noted clinician, researcher, and teacher for more than 30 years, Dr. Charles has helped develop diabetes clinics in Russia, Vietnam, and China.
"This is a comprehensive and very well documented book on diabetes. To my knowledge it is the first to address specifically the practical question of how to evaluate and manage the risk factors that drive all complications in diabetes. It is also a very energetically written book against the paradoxical poverty of diabetes care in the U.S.A. compared to most European countries."
Jean-Louis Selam, M.D.
Professor, Service de Diabétologie, Paris, France
"Diabetes Management contains the most practical information for clinicians of any book I have read. Dr. Charles covers the pathophysiology in a clear fashion and ties this information together with the clinical features of diabetes. He includes the latest information about how to modify risk factors to vascular complications of diabetes. All physicians who want to provide the best, most up-to-date care for diabetes patients should read this book."
David Klonoff, M.D., F.A.C.P.
Clinical Professor of Medicine
University of California at San Francisco
Editor, Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics